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Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)?
Is there any way to batch OCR PDFs that haven't been already OCRed? This is, I think, the current state of ...

Many times I come across bitmaps with nothing but text paragraphs, so I was looking for a way to identify the font used, the paragraph alignment, line spacing and color, bold, italics.
Would an OCR ...

I was over by my grandparent's place this past weekend. My grandmother pulled out this giant (~1400 page) book of her family history going back to 1630 or so. Giant nerd that I am, I thought it would ...

I've used SimpleOCR, which has a nice GUI for correcting mistakes. Unfortunately it makes a lot of mistakes! (and suffers other bugs and limitations)
On the other hand Tesseract is more accurate but ...

How do you kick off a scan and character recognition using Microsoft Office Word 2010 (Beta)?
I can't seem to find an option to scan the document in my scanner directly into a 2010 Word document.
I ...

I tried to run OCR on multiple scanned sheets with numbers like this image (All with same background, digits only):
But all trials failed!
I tried offline OCRs: gocr, tesseract and couple of online ...

OCR processing takes time. Using multiple CPU cores would speed up processing. Acrobat 10 was not a multithreaded application. How about Acrobat 11? Does 11 by default do OCR using multiple CPU cores ...

I'm using OCR Text Recognition integrated into Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 to produce an (invisible) searchable text overlay for text pages I have scanned. This is very neat for copying some phrases to the ...

Sometimes i need to OCR images that I stumble upon on some webpages. I would like to know if there are any plugins for Firefox and Chrome that would allow me to upload desired image for processing on ...

I get a lot of PDFs from other people consisting of scanned old documents. Unfortunately, sometimes the text on the scans, though legible, looks grainy and is hard to read.
What I've been able to do ...

I'm trying to get some data into a text file from screenshots. Apparently screenshots don't work very well with OCR because they are 75dpi and the minimum for good quality OCR is 150dpi. Does anyone ...

What OCR programs and resources are available to scan Hebrew/Yiddish text?
One program per answer please, and please include the following:
Price
Link to download or purchase site
Does it work with ...

I have a book I want to read onscreen. It is scanned at 200 dpi monochrome (I still don't know what went wrong in the scanner driver, I remember setting it to grayscale, but cannot afford the time to ...

So I have a magazine (with couple of pages) in hands and I want to have a resulting file which will keep the whole diagram and image intact, but still allow me to search / find and select text in it.
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I'm on a project that processes hundreds of forms. The forms have consistent formats but are filled out by hand by different people. I need a way to quickly process all of this data into electronic ...

I have thousands upon thousands of PDF files that have OCR. It's great when you have one open but I want to be able to find PDF files in a folder that contain X. Adobe seems to have something build in ...

What's the best solution for OCR analysis of handwritten text strings that appear on a map?
More in-depth explanation of what I'm looking for:
I'm working on a large data processing effort involving ...

I'm scanning in many A4 paper documents to JPEG using a automated document feeder scanner.
The results are FILE0001.JPG FILE0002.JPG etc.
I would like a program to rename the file name title to text ...

I'm looking for a way to convert thousands of pdf's to searchable pdf's. I've used a program called "PDF Create Assistant" that came with Nuance's ecopy software. However, you can't select a folder, ...

I am searching for software that can reconstruct the exact pixels from a photo of an old videogame or a piece pixel-art. The goal would be the re-digitalization of digital images that only survived in ...